Idylle

Symbolic image – for the detailed description and condition, please read the Item Details below.Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunford craft something rare on *Idylle*: a conversation between voice and theorbo that feels genuinely intimate rather than historically reconstructed. Desandre's soprano—luminous and unhurried—meets Dunford's delicate plucking across a landscape of French Baroque song and gentle minimalist interludes (Satie's "Gymnopédie No. 1" and "Gnossiennes No. 1" drift through like half-remembered dreams). The album is less a formal recital than an invitation into a private idyll, where pastoral texts by Marmontel and others about love, desire, and rural solitude gain new life through this understated pairing. There's a meditative quality here—each phrase breathes, each silence matters—that rewards close listening. Recorded for Erato in 2023, this feels like music made for listeners who want to sit with a record rather than simply hear it. Item Details+ Genre Classical Media Mint (M) Sleeve Mint (M) Label Erato Year 2023 Country France Format CD Tracklist+ 1. Le Doux Silence de Nos Bois 2. Néère 3. Le Temps De L'Amour 4. Gnossiennes No. 1 5. Celle Qui Fait Mon Tourment 6. Auprès Du Feu On Fait L'amour 7. Tristes Déserts, Sombre Retraite 8. J'ai Deux Amants 9. Gymnopédie No. 1 10. Ma Bergère Est Tendre Et Fidèle 11. A Chloris 12. Sans Frayeur Dans Ce Bois 13. Sarabande 14. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour 15. On N'entend Rien Dans Ce Bocage 16. Mes Longs Cheveux Descendent 17. Ombre De Mon Amant 18. Vos Mépris Chaque Jour 19. Chaconne 20. Dis, Quand Reviendras-tu ? 21. Laissez Durer La Nuit 22. Amours Divins Data provided by Discogs.